EES Europe, Smart Energy Europe & Intersolar

The automotive industry is undergoing a transformative shift toward electric vehicles (EVs), making battery technology a central focus for innovation. As consumer demand for EVs grows, reliable battery performance and safety have become more critical than ever. At the heart of guaranteeing reliability is thorough, methodical battery cell testing. Below, we explore why cell testing is so vital, how it’s done, and the key challenges in today’s market.

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The Vasa Museum in Stockholm houses Vasa, a 17th-century Swedish warship raised from the seabed in 1961. Almost completely preserved, she is both a cultural icon and a full-scale research platform for naval architecture, materials science, and maritime archaeology. But preserving a 400-year-old oak hull on land poses a critical structural challenge: without buoyancy, the ship’s weight is carried through discrete support points, and slow deformation has already been detected. To protect Vasa for future generations, the museum is replacing the original display cradle with an adjustable steel support system equipped with a real-time force monitoring and long-term structural health monitoring (SHM) solution.

The GI.cloud concept acquires and stores data of many decentralized data acquisition systems like Gantner Instrument’s Q.Station. IT Security is an increasingly important aspect to secure the communication and data transfer between the acquisition system and the cloud server.